“This whole problem was not caused by Lehman Brothers or Lehman Brothers failure. Lehman was an effect not a cause.”

Legendary global investor and chairman of Singapore- based Rogers Holdings, Jim Rogers said the Fed and the US Treasury should have let 10 banks fail, not just Lehman Brothers, for the financial system to clean itself up.

Speaking to CNBC Wordwide Exchange today Rogers said

“All the government officials and bureaucrats loved the fact Lehman failed, because they could all jump in and support banks.”

“We’re going to have zombie capitalism for the next 15-20 years. How long are you going to let the bureaucrats run the thing so we can’t have a clean system?,”

I go through a lot of news articles every month. I archive what i think is important into 71 different categories. But there are those articles that make a lasting impression and having a wider effect then just the day the story was printed.

I put these stories into my MUST READ folder. I wish I had the time or the space here to explain why I believe each of these stories is so important but I don’t. Hopefully something on this list will get you thinking.

The FBI Deputizes Business … an old article from 2008 that I just became aware of.This article talks about InfraGard. 23,000 representatives of private industry who are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector … The admission from main stream media that the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. All economic growth has be in the government.

John Conyers “why would I read health care bill” … This one absolutely floors me. A member of congress say why should be read the bills? because it’s your job …. and the fact that he needs lawyers to tell him what the bill means proves that congressmen aren’t writing these bills. They’re being written by lawyers of the lobbyist and then handed to congress to pass them. That’s enough proof for me right there that you should oppose the health reform bill.

Two executed as China fraud crackdown continues … I love this one. China executed two people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of yuan in beauty parlour, cosmetics and property scams. So Bank CEO’s swindle taxpayers out of trillions of dollars and we give them millions in bonus …. you make a bad business deal and China and your dead!

Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions … Bloomberg has sued the FED twice in the last year to get them to disclose where the bailout money went. Now A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The Man Who Sells America’s I.O.U.’s … The auction of United States Treasury securities, and $32 billion has just been sold in a blink. It was another successful operation for Van Zeck, the commissioner of the public debt, who has the world’s biggest credit card.

Vital Signs and the “Fix” … As we approach the middle of the summer, 2009, it is of utmost importance to be able to slice deftly through the heavy propaganda fog that the government is pumping out through its mouthpiece the media.

Flu shot or get fired … Workers at Capital Region hospitals are going to have to get a flu shot this year or face losing their jobs …. This is a good one to get you thinking, what if this was the policy at your office?

Study Says World’s Stocks Controlled by Select Few … A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power.

Common Sense 2009 … This article from Larry Flynt! is amazing. He’s been attacked for years for his free speech as the founder of Hustler. Now he’s hitting back. He writes “The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street”

Russian Professor Igor Panarin says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the United States will completely collapse like the Soviet Union before the end of 2010, and warns that the chaos could begin to unfold in as little as two months.

Back in April of 2008 Panarin began very publicly predicting the collapse of the US, Saying:

the financial crisis may split the United States into six entities.

Which might spring a civil war, and slowing would return America to resemble the map of 1865. Even a year ago Americans who reported on Panarin’s predictions laughed and turned the other way. The White House Spokeswomen at the time Dana Perino said she was perplexed and declined to comment.

But now as Obama’s approval rating is slipping fast, It might be time to listen a little closer to what Panarin has to say. Below is what Panarin predicts the Us could look like in a few years.

Panarin’s impression of Obama is that he’s a great talker, but that’s about it. Obama may just be the mouth piece to keep everyone calm until they realize that it’s too late and the collapse is already started. Once people realize that Obama if just trying to keep the peace and he has lead them to the slaughter it will be like an explosion.

Panarin blames the collapse on a political elite that implements an absurd and aggressive policy that aims to create conflicts around the planet.

“In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US,” Panarin concluded.